cello

     

Bowe string instrument

Trivia about cello

  • A traditional string quartet is made up of 2 violins, 1 viola & 1 of these instruments
  • It's the second-largest member of the violin family
  • Yo-Yo Ma
  • In the next hour, Sir William Walton's concerto for this instrument, featuring Yo-Yo Ma
  • "C" is generally soft when it comes before "E", but not at the start of this musical instrument
  • One of the most common chamber groups, the string quartet consists of 2 violins, a viola & this instrument
  • Pablo Casals started his day by playing one of Bach's suites for this unaccompanied instrument
  • Zoltan Kodaly wrote some of the finer works for solo this bass member of the violin family
  • A friend of many musicians, Britten wrote a sonata for this stringed instrument for Mstislav Rostropovich
  • It's the member of the violin family heard here
  • Jacques Offenbach was a virtuoso on this instrument, as is Yo-Yo Ma
  • Jacqueline du Pre made an acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut May 14, 1965 playing Elgar's concerto for this instrument
  • Pablo Casals said that this instrument "is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time"
  • For much of the 20th c., Gregor Piatigorsky was regarded as the world's second-greatest virtuoso on this instrument
  • Instead of playing with my yo-yo I'm playing like Yo-Yo Ma on this instrument

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